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Cristóbal Balenciaga

10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 2, 2024 by David Senra · said 173 times in 6 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Everything said about Cristóbal Balenciaga, oldest first

Apr 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Balenciaga Fitted Up to 180 Garments on Models in a Single Day
“Experts, as well as customers, marveled at the speed he went about his work. Especially the difficult business of fitting models with scores of garments just before a collection. He could do a 180 in a day.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 6:34 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024
Assertion Supported
Balenciaga Was One of 60 Firms Allowed in Occupied Paris
“So he was able to reopen, ah, his fashion house in September, 1940. And he was just one of 60 firms that the Germans allowed to function.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 13:25 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Unlike Balenciaga Christian Dior Could Not Physically Make a Dress Himself
“Dior could not actually make a dress. He was a designer, as Coco Chanel said, not a courtier.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 24:22 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Balenciaga Shut Down His Paris House Due to Lacking a Successor
“Abruptly, he retired, shut down his Paris house completely because there was no possible successor, and returned to Spain.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 35:18 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024
Assertion Contradicted
Cristóbal Balenciaga Gave Only One Press Interview During His Entire Career
“He never gave interviews except once to the London Times when he decided to retire.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 27:50 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Cristóbal Balenciaga Was Ambidextrous and Could Sew With Either Hand
“He had, for instance, strong, powerful, but also delicate hands, and this is wild, and he's also ambidextrous. He could cut and sew with either hand.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 7:03 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
In the 1950s Wealthy Clients Graduated From Dior to Balenciaga
“Dior dressed the rich. Balenciaga the very rich. And this was known at the time. It says during the 19 fifties, a woman graduated from Dior to Balenciaga.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 25:04 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024
Assertion Supported
Balenciaga Rejected a 17-Year-Old Hubert de Givenchy for Employment
“In fact, a seventeen-year-old Givenchy tried to work for him, and he said no.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 28:16 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024 negative
Opinion
David Senra Calls Modern Balenciaga Loud, Trendy, and Ugly
“When I think of Balenciaga now, I think of like, you know, it's kind of like loud, trendy, my opinion, very ugly. It wasn't like that. It was the opposite of like that when Balenciaga was running it himself.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 10:28 The Biography of Balenciaga
Apr 2, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cristóbal Balenciaga Hand-Sewed a Piece of Work Every Day for 74 Years
“For the next 74 years, he could and did so superbly, and kept his hand in by doing a piece of sewing every day of his life.”
David Senra Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 3:01 The Biography of Balenciaga
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